The fifth and latest offering in the Hannibal Lecter "series" jumps back in time to the beginning of Hannibal the Cannibal. Englishman Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring) directs a fascinating ...

As repeatedly demonstrated in “The Silence of the Lambs” and its sequels, Hannibal Lecter will kill and eat just about anybody. Still, the good doctor saves his most fiendish, dastardly prescriptions ...

A killer career is launched in "Hannibal Rising," which explains how the character became the cunning cannibal of later repute. This upmarket slasher is a well-produced but slow-moving thriller that ...

About a half hour into “Hannibal Rising,” a corpulent French butcher harasses the only Asian character (played by Gong Li) by inquiring as to which direction her vagina runs. In that very moment, the ...

The film of Hannibal Rising is released just six months after Thomas Harris delivered the novel's manuscript and that explains a lot. It's the maths that gives the game away. How much time passes ...

“Hannibal Rising” (2007, Weinstein, Unrated,$30): With its 1940s setting, lavish backdrops and tasteful gore, Hannibal Lecter’s (Gaspard Ulliel) origin story resembles nothing so much as an edition of ...